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by maest 1y ago
> in Q3 you're assuming that there's a 0% chance of hearing that the envelope doesn't match the family. This is equivalent to the host never opening the door with the car in the Monty Hall scenario
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by maest 1y ago
This page looks like AI slop. I don't understand what I'm supposed to get out of it.
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by maest 1y ago
Clawback clauses are a thing, both for company sellers and C-suite payouts.
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by maest 1y ago
Counterpoint: all my french Jewish friends have reported no such thing. The group is not large, but relatively diverse, spread across 2-3 almost disjoint circles.
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by maest 1y ago
Before adding the AI summary, google required: Tab+tab+enter to highlight the first link result. Now, with the summary, it's: Tab+tab+enter+tab+tab Just wild lol
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by maest 1y ago
I don't know about the broader point the GP is making, but 15% funding is significant by most measures.
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by maest 1y ago
> I would adore to see obtaining a drivers license ratchet up in difficulty I have taken driving licence exams in 3 different countries in the world and the NY exams was, by far, the easiest, less stringent one. For the theory part, you
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by maest 1y ago
Protecting ones privacy comes with the incidental side effect of making it difficult for society to penalize one for not abiding by the rules. Bank robbers wear ski masks for similar privacy concerns.
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by maest 1y ago
> But in most cases replication lag can be worked around with simple tricks: for instance, when you update a record but need to use it right after, you can fill in the updated details in-memory instead of immediately re-reading after a w
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by maest 1y ago
What is the purpose of such inflammatory language and lopsided argumentation? Very poor form.
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by maest 1y ago
The DnD episode from Community (S2E14) can't be seen on any streaming services because one Asian character wears black makeup while cosplaying as a drow.
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by maest 1y ago
Landlords charge whatever the market will bear, which is largely unrelated to the mortgage costs - it's driven more by supply and demand, salary levels in the area, inflation etc. Also, you're ignoring all the other factors I ment
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by maest 1y ago
This is oversimplifying and lazy thinking. The rent vs buy decision matters on _a lot_ more factors than what your framing includes: - prevailing interest rates - predicted future interest rates - mortgage cost - predicted house price appre
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by maest 1y ago
Does salary mean TC or just base? How are discretionary bonuses handled?
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by maest 1y ago
For someone as clever as you, I'm sure it's obvious why using a throwaway greatly diminishes the value of what you're saying. To spell it out for you: there is value to having some notion of persistent identity even on pseudo
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by maest 1y ago
Funnily enough, that PDF reader makes a very loud (and useless) noise whenever I turn the page.
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by maest 1y ago
> First semester that year, I took a Beverage Management class, which was ostensibly about managing bars, but it was no secret that everyone took it because of its tasting component. Is this breadth of topics common for the American high
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by maest 1y ago
> "Congestion is oftentimes a sign of economic prosperity," he said. It's just a law of nature, I suppose. There is nothing we can do to reduce traffic and improve urban mobility.
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by maest 1y ago
No, it's more nuanced tham it, as described in TFA. Strawmanning their position isn't helpful to anyone.
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by maest 1y ago
> You pretty clearly don't want to hear my concrete explanation. Not sure where you got that from. I am clearly calling for a concrete explanation. > I'm not sure yours fully accounts for what's happening there. Yes, my
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by maest 1y ago
> something is going on Many things could be going on. You should propose a concrete explanation instead of some vague "something is going on" placeholder which could uncharitably be described as dog-whistling. For example, con
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by maest 1y ago
Similar to Pascal's wager, which pretty much amounts to "yeah, God is probably not real, _but what if it is_? The utility of getting into heaven is infinite (and hell is infinitely negative), so any non-zero probability that God i
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by maest 1y ago
There's this quote I heard that said something along the lines of "Good sci-fi uses fictional technology to show us something about human beings that would be difficult to express otherwise".
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by maest 1y ago
For Verizon, it's one of their log in forms that doesn't work on Firefox, even with ublock disabled. Works just fine with Chrome. I was able to reproduce the behaviour on both my and my wife's laptop. (I haven't tried di
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by maest 1y ago
There are definitely website that do not support Firefox, especially in the US. Whole portions of the Verizon website, for example. Or the website of a well known kindergarden I was researching recently.
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by maest 1y ago
He didn't just extend his arm, the whole motion matters. I am having a hard time believing you are arguing in good faith.
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by maest 1y ago
I think there is a reason for this, but maybe not a good one. 1. Function application should be left to right, e.g. `sqrt 4` 2. Precedence order should be very simple. In k, everything has the same precedence order (with the exceptions of b
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by maest 1y ago
NIT: It's _marking_ the close. "Painting" has a different meaning.
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by maest 1y ago
> citizenship check is probably something like a single SELECT on an SQL table I am willing to bet, with extremely unfavorable odds to me, that is not true
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by maest 1y ago
Oh great, another article on this company. I swear I keep being bombarded left and right with content desperately telling me hyperbolic things like "Lovable is the last piece of software humanity will ever build".

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